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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

As of 10:09 p.m. tonight, the Back of the Cereal Box will be officially four years old. It's a presidential term. It's high school. It's college for the nose-to-the-grindstoney. And it boggles me that I could have nurtured this silly little URL from the early "Trendburger" days into something that I'm actually proud of and something that I've been able to actually trick other people into reading.

During past milestones, I've attempted to encapsulate the celebrated time period with something witty or at least a quick summary of events. Now that the drop-down archive directory and the tagging feature have made reading old content easier than ever, though, I don't feel the need. Anything I have to say is as accessible now as it was the day I first wrote it: a click or two and you're there. In lieu of profundity, I've decided to offer my perspective on what I think the ten best posts I've written are.

"Godspeed, Captain Pinchy!" which represents probably my best effort at turning something that happened to me into some kind of coherent narrative. It may not be the sterling example of creative nonfiction that I thought it was when I first wrote it, but hey — anything that features Glenn, Cory and Marcy as protagonists has to have some value.